Welcome to Marketing's morning briefing, a daily shot of news and a recap of the best longer reads and videos. In the news today, Tesla is to accelerate smart car plans, a report reveals blame for HBOS collapse and European Government urges Bitcoin crackdown.

Elon Musk has reiterated that its plans for smart car development were "super high priority" after he took to Twitter to announce a recruitment drive for software engineers for the project.

He used the social networking platform to call on people to apply for the job, adding that experience working on smart car software development wasn’t a requirement and that he’d do the interviewing himself.

Tesla’s smart car software is called Autopilot and is built off its Model S and Model X cars. The aim is to let the cars automatically steer, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic, according to the BBC.

European countries to crack down on Bitcoin use

A draft document leaked to Reuters has revealed plans by the European Government to crack down on the use of Bitcoin.

The decision has been made as a response to the Paris attacks as the Government finds ways to limit how terrorism is funded.

The report says governments need to "strengthen controls of non-banking payment methods such as electronic/anonymous payments and virtual currencies and transfers of gold, precious metals, by pre-paid cards."